Thats 100% incorrect right?
North America is large, so maybe you should specify a country (I have no idea what the canadian/mexican price is), but in the USA the Slim is $299, and the 80gig PS3 Phat is also $299

I read this article saying that in the new ps3 update, when starting a game um it will no longer say “playstation 3” as you can see in that last video, that video starting a game up, you can see in the ps3 slim it did not say “playstation 3” D:

They are both the same speed! And even if they are not we have all got what we want a cheaper affordable ps3. Who cares if it’s faster or slower, as long as we all have the opportunity to own one, or two in my case!

Thats funny the PS3s Hard Drive is 5400rpm, it all depends on how much you have on your HDD and even though the TVs look the same model it could be slightly different would could also change the outcome.

i read this article saying, that in the ps3 update 3.o, when starting a game up, it wont say “playstation 3” anymore, you know? that spiderman font? that last video was only faster because on the slim, it didnt say playstation 3, im guessing the slim was already instealled with 3.0

Are you all kidding me?
Slim is only “a little bit” slower on boot up and running Bluray movies. Guess what this is propaly because of down downsetting the frequency on the core, to produce even less heat and noise and consuming even less power.

You have 2 videos of it being slower. Then you have 2 videos of it being faster. Yet the article is titled “PS3 Slim Slower Than PS3”. I would say that it breaks even. Plus, certain load times don’t necessarily make a difference. The only concern is if its slower during actual gameplay.

Despite the fact that the creator of the videos uses the same type of HDD in each PS3, we don’t know if the older model has the specified game info and bluray info cached and thus happens to load faster sometimes.

I am no fan of the PS3. It is the sad result of Sony’s hubris and has completely failed to live up to its potential so far. But I will say this in its defense:

I believe the PS3 does dynamic caching of frequently or recently accessed disc content to the HD, even on games that do not require installation. That could easily account for the differences in performance here, if any of these discs had been run on that unit before the recorded comparison was done.

For all practical purposes, the small differences in performance seen here seem negligible, and I would bet you would see similar differences between two “identical” models of PS3 as well.

What’s even worse is MS had a chance to dispute that 54% error rate from the statistic, but their PR person didn’t. Instead they reiterated their awesome wonderful warranty. THEY had a chance but they did NOT dispute the claim. You know what that means? The error rate probably IS that high.

The fact that the Slim was a little bit faster when starting Batman was due to it having a newer Firmware where the “Playstation 3” Logo when starting a game was removed. When the new FW will be available for download it will be the same for the old ps3.

Maybe all these “Anonymous” people would get registered if Artefact changed Anonymous to something silly. Like if unregistered users would show up as random shitty nicknames like iluvhorses93, shadow_vampire_xxx and inuyashagurrrl…

You moron, the 54% statistic was from a magazine survey done by Game Informer. YOU NEED TO PHYSICALLY MAIL THE SURVEY to them. =P In general, people are too lazy to actually drop mail – especially postcard surveys – to the postal office if they don’t actually have a problem. Disgruntled consumers are more likely to report a problem than people that never got any. IT WASN’T A CLICK & AWAY SURVEY you retard. GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT DOUCHE

gameinformer or not, all my friends that own a 360, died on them, and there on there like 3rd system..me, im still on my 1st ps3, no problems what so ever. and about the slim, who gives a shit if its like .4 seconds slower, its still not going to die out

I think there’s too many flaws in the video to tell really. The ones trying to show the slim as slower could easily have been done by someone with some bias in their console choice.

Things to note though, in the last video, the batman symbol on the loading screen spins at slightly different speeds, yet the one it appears slower on loads faster… seems a bit odd to me. Either way, I wouldn’t be so quick to trust these videos.

second of all, you can’t forget the version they used to sell that DIDN’T HAVE A HARD DRIVE. severe performance differences there, also this has caused incredible trouble for developers and is one of the big advantages that the ps3 has, every ps3 owner has a hard drive, so the developers can design their games knowing that the player has a hard drive.

I don’t know about Finland specifically but usually they don’t give a shit about Europe. First comes Japan, second comes the USA and… “Ho we almost forgot Europe better make them pay a lot to have the chance to access our wonderful system…”

except that they have done multiple die shrinks since the original as well, so the system is not producing nearly as much heat, and thus does not need as big of a heatsink to keep cool (uses less electricity, also)

this is why I hate it when sankaku complex talks about hardware, nobody here actually knows jack shit